U.S. Develops 14-Ton Super Bomb, Bigger Than Russian Vacuum Bomb

[Purveyor]

Source: RIA Novosti

WASHINGTON, September 13 (RIA Novosti) - The U.S. has a 14-ton super bomb more destructive than the vacuum bomb just tested by Russia, a U.S. general said Wednesday.

The statement was made by retired Lt. General McInerney, chairman of the Iran Policy Committee, and former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force.

McInerney said the U.S. has "a new massive ordnance penetrator that's 30,000 pounds, that really penetrates ... Ahmadinejad has nothing in Iran that we can't penetrate."

He also said the new Russian bomb was not a "penetrator."

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On Tuesday, the Fox News television channel said: "A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime.".

Commenting on the report, McInerney said: "Since Germany has backed out of helping economically, we do not have any other choice. ... They've forced us into the military option."

McInerney described some possible military campaign scenarios and said: "The one I favor the most, of course, is an air campaign," he continued.

He said that bombing would be launched by 65-70 stealth bombers and 400 bombers of other types.

"Forty-eight hours duration, hitting 2500 aimed points to take out their nuclear facilities, their air defense facilities, their air force, their navy, their Shahab-3 retaliatory missiles, and finally their command and control. And then let the Iranian people take their country back," the general said describing the campaign, adding it would be "easy."



Read more: http://en.rian.ru/world/20070913/78518873.html

[htuttle]

1. Geez -- quit waving it around and tuck it back in your pants, boys!!

:eyes:

[Renew Deal]

26. lol, that's what I was thinking.

We have a bigger bomb than Russia. So lets use it on Iran!!! That's weird.

[Roland99]

32. How can he wave around something he needs the Hubble to find?

[Spazito]

Exactly, why don't they just get out the ruler and measure

it's a hell of a lot cheaper and only destroys their egos and not the lives of others.

[Threedifferentones]

57. Put it away? Why? It gets so much great penetration!

[DS1]

2. Stop calling Britney FAT!

It's not FAIR!

[Dr. Strange]

43. Oh, you're evil!

:spank:
giggle

[Joe Bacon]

47. Oh, lets jut go for broke and drop Britney on Iran!

Why waste a bomb when Britney will strike total fear and paralysis throughout Iran?????

[bemildred]

3. Oh good, more dick-waving. "Our bomb is bigger than your bomb." nt

[Crowman1979]

4. Oh, an easy campaign this would be.

When was the last time we heard this BS?

[Submariner]

5. "Mine is bigger than yourssssss"

With Dubya at the helm this all seems so childish...if it wasn't so damn dangerous.

[wordpix]

6. Another shock & awe campaign on the way for Iran---that worked really well in Iraq, didn't it?

Definition of insanity :crazy: is just keep doing the same things that didn't work over again...
:scared: :nuke:

[wtmusic]

7. Get these idiots some Cialis before they destroy the world nt

[Nihil]

34. Get these idiots some Cyanide before they destroy the world.

Mind you, if you form it into little blue tablets it would probably
be easier to get them to take their medicine ...?

[Megahurtz]

53. No Kidding!

Why give them Cialis? They're already fucking everybody.

[bullimiami]

8. 'let the iranian people take their country back" is the insane delusion

that these maniacs live in.

if the us was bombed do you think we would be taking our country back or turning on the attackers? and bushco is way less popular than the iranian government.


one thing the neocons are proving ... The UN is USELESS.

Bushco has waged war and overthrown the governments of Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan, has attempted a coup in Venezuela and is now threatening Iran. WHERE THE HELL IS THE UN? There should be sanctions and blockades against the US by now. The silence is deafening.

[bdamomma]

22. another thing the neo cons are proving there is no such

thing as diplomacy, I hate these people. and the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation are both fronts for the neo cons too.

[Occulus]

28. Racist assholes to boot

I saw an ad recently in the mailstream (I'm a postal worker, I get to see all sorts of interesting mailings sent by the troglodytes to their minions) from the Heritage Foundation. I threw up in my mouth a little bit- every last person but one in their little "representative gathering" on the unwritten side of the card was lily-white.

They had one- repeat one- member of a non-white group, and the presence of that poor African-American girl in the picture just screamed "I'm a token!!"

As if they wanted to say "SEE? We DO involve minorities, we DO, we really, really DO!!"

:grr:

Lily. White. All but one.

:grr:

[GliderGuider]

41. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was a Dutch MP.

"She wrote the short film Submission by Theo Van Gogh, which featured sexualized images of a Muslim woman with verses of the Koran written on her body, telling a tale of abuse. When the filmmaker was murdered in 2004, the note pinned to his body was addressed to Hirsi Ali.

"Two years later, she was at the center of another storm, when a minister in her own party threatened her citizenship because she lied on her refugee application. She moved to the United States, and published her memoir - a huge best-seller.

"She's now working at the arch-conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington and stopped by to chat with Avi last time she went through town."

Here's her CBC interview with Avi Lewis from his show On The Map.

[formercia]

39. I hear an echo....

"And then let the Iranian people take their country back"

Like we give them a choice in the matter.....

[tblue37]

42. I am reminded of the Israeli government's assumption that an air campaign against

Hezbollah in Lebanon would be "easy" and productive. Who suffered? The civilians, that's who. If we bomb Iran, we will be murdering civilians, not liberating them. What we are doing in Iraq is killing and displacing civilians, not liberating them.

These warmongering idiots make me want to puke.

[tridim]

9. Our bomb is bigger than your bomb..

Oh and you're a poopie-head too. :eyes:

Why do these assholes want the cold war back so badly? Don't we have enough problems already?

[Kagemusha]

12. Yes, and the US bomb can "penetrate" and the Russian can't.

So the Russian bomb is impotent, see?

Ughhhhhhh.

[0007]

38. .........yeah and we got the toughest bitch on the block

[FreeStateDemocrat]

10. A pissing away money contest, but not enough money for children's healthcare, etc.

[Wildewolfe]

11. Bush and Putin

Just need to duel. Go to someplace where no one else is and it's superbombs at 20 paces.... problem solved. By the time the CSIs figure out who's was bigger, we might have the world fixed hehe.

[bdamomma]

23. exactly go to some open area and just fight it out among yourselves

and keep us out of it!!!

[comtec]

13. What i got from this article is they PLAN on attacking IRAN!~!~!

Because Germany said, basically, sanctions V Iran are BS, the administration is going to give up on their 1/20th assed attempt at diplomacy and are going straight to the bomb... this is UN-Fu... actually I completely believe it. Sadly I have come to expect nothing less than the behavior of a petulant CHILD from this administration. How utterly pathetic!

[CrispyQ]

14. Slightly dated, but appropriate!

[denverbill]

15. The Iranian people took their country back 30 years ago all by themselves.

If they want to, they can do it again without our 'help'.

[lovuian]

16. We bombed the hell outta Vietnam and its still standing

Bombs dont win wars...they just spend lots of money on futility

[redqueen]

17. Money money money money....

MONEY!

[BootinUp]

18. Sounds like a 'cakewalk'

:eyes:

[maxrandb]

36. The Iranians Will Greet Us With Flowers and Chocolates

said the Boy King.

[slackmaster]

19. We cannot allow a biggest non-nuclear bomb gap

:nuke:

[bdamomma]

20. little boys with dangerous toys

why can't they fucking grow up?

[tridim]

25. "No 'grownups' under here.. Nope.. None over there either!" nt

[UnyieldingHierophant]

21. USA USA! We're number !!!

[Bragi]

24. What a great accomplishment for American ingenuity /nt

[SayWhatYo]

27. lol...

Not sure why that's my first reaction... Too bad the world doesn't actually work as toward developing things that might help save us rather than destroy us....

[no_hypocrisy]

29. * to Putin: Who's YOUR Daddy?!

Geez, today Dr. Strangelove feels more like a documentary rather than satire.

[dipsydoodle]

30. And all that Iran will need to do

is shut down the entire oil supply from the Middle East by destroying the oil terminals and the pipelines, wave two fingers in the air and say "your move sunshine"

Use of that bomb will gain the USA nothing other than a Pyrrhic victory - a victory
gained with devasting cost to the victor.

[ohio2007]

31. We must not allow a "Mine shaft gap Mr President"

Dr Strangelove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BldWP-V2ve8

[Felinity]

33. Two words not included in our bragging rights

Depleted Uranium

[sinkingfeeling]

35. Wow. The arms race is back! Deja vu!

[kimmylavin]

37. Now I know why these people are so afraid of sex...

Can you say "penetrate" one more time, sir?

[GregW]

40. Is this the same bomb that's too heavy to drop from a bomber?

What are they going to do - deliver it to the target in a semi?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

44. I don't know if this is the same one or not

If it is, just think of the contracts that will be issued to create something to deploy this monster.

Listen. Can you hear that? It's the sound of papery, skinned hands rubbing together with greedy glee.

[backscatter712]

45. Question to people knowledgeable about .mil stuff

What's the point behind these monster bombs. The "Daisy Cutter" was used in Vietnam to blast away rainforest in a large radius to make instant helicopter landing pads for deployments.

But we're not fighting in rainforest today, are we? Aside from ego-boosting, what's the purpose of the MOAB, the Russian FOAB, and this new megabomb?

[BootinUp]

49. They are being used to

attack hardened underground bunkers i believe.

[shaniqua6392]

46. Our bomb is bigger than your bomb!!!

Na na na na na.

[originalpckelly]

48. He also said the new Russian bomb was not a "penetrator."

Good God, this really is all a dick waving contest isn't it?

[bamacrat]

50. "It would be easy", what like Iraq was/is?

Haven't we heard this before? Shock and Awe I think they called it. Maybe they mean the bombing would be easy, after that who knows.

[OwnedByFerrets]

51. What a wonderful marvelous use of MY

tax dollars. Makes me soooo proud to be an amerikan.:puke:

[superconnected]

52. Back to the fucking arms race... I'm sure haliburton is doing cartwheels.

[Megahurtz]

54. Take Your Big

"penetrating" Bomb and shove it!!! :mad:

[damntexdem]

55. Ooh, look: mine is bigger than yours!

Hey, Russia, I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours! Let's see whose is bigger!

I'm so glad that the adults are in charge.

And isn't this just great: "Forty-eight hours duration, hitting 2500 aimed points to take out their nuclear facilities, their air defense facilities, their air force, their navy, their Shahab-3 retaliatory missiles, and finally their command and control. And then let the Iranian people take their country back," the general said describing the campaign, adding it would be "easy."

But he misspoke himself a little. He should have said "and then let whatever may be left of the Iranian people take back whatever little bit may be left of their country."

[Blue_Tires]

56. man i wish we had one of those doomsday machines!

[kimmerspixelated]

58. Everytime we show off our hypocrisy,

with this na-nanny-booboo bullshit over bombs, I cringe! How the hell do these fools that make/promote the bombs have the audacity to talk about Iran, Korea, or whomever it is we don't like at the moment! Such little men with such dinky, miniscule pricks trying to be big, somehow!

[leftofthedial]

59. "easy"

goddamned assholes; fucking idiots

[rockedthevoteinMA]

60. It's like the Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss. Oh my. n/t

[ironflange]

61. George, Vladimir, please wait here a minute

I'll go get a ruler so we can settle this once and for all.

[CHIMO]

62. Lots Of Antiperspirants Here

Thermobaric weapons
They're gaining cachet with large military forces, but what exactly are they?

What is a thermobaric weapon?
A thermobaric weapon disperses a fine cloud of particles of a solid or an explosive liquid, then detonates the cloud with a charge. The result is an explosion of heat and pressure, essentially a fiery shockwave. Such weapons are often synonymous with fuel air explosives, with differences between the two mainly stemming from how quickly the explosive cloud is detonated. Throwing an aerosol spray can into a fire would achieve the same explosive effect as a thermobaric weapon achieves, although obviously on a much smaller scale.

What does thermobaric mean?
The term comes from Greek, with therme meaning heat and baros meaning pressure.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/how-it-works/thermobaric-weapons.html

[FVZA_Colonel]

63. And he immediately has to mention Iran.

Even without the second story it would be pretty damn clear what he wants. And Germany's witholding support will force us to attack Iran? Of come the fuck on!